'Good Book' Hemp Lesson

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Senior Pastor Dr. Ted Beam should study his Bible more diligently because his denunciation of drug plants made by the Creator insults God. Denying the usefulness of plants such as marijuana, coca, peyote cactus and psilocybe mushrooms shows extreme ignorance and a lack of faith in God.

The only prohibition of any plant found in the Bible is at Genesis 2:16 The Lord God commanded the man, saying, "From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; ( 17 ) but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die."

After the failure of the ban on consuming the tree of knowledge of good and evil, the Bible never again prohibits the use of any plant. The bans on consuming certain animals were very detailed and specific. ( see Leviticus 11:1 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 2 "Say to the Israelites: 'Of all the animals that live on land, these are the ones you may eat: 3 You may eat any animal that has a split hoof completely divided and that chews the cud," etc. The same precise listing would be provided if any plants were forbidden.

Beam errs when he implies that marijuana has no food value. Hemp oil has a remarkable fatty acid profile, being high in the desirable omega-3s and also delivering some GLA ( gamma-linolenic acid ) that is absent from the fats we normally eat. Nutritionally oriented doctors believe all of these compounds to be beneficial to health.

Hemp oil contains 57 percent linoleic and 19 percent linolenic acids, in a three to one ratio matching human nutritional needs. These are the essential fatty acids - so called because the body cannot make them and must get them from external sources.

Hemp seeds saved Australia from two famines in the 1800s. That's why it is such a terrible insult to the Almighty to spew reefer madness lies about hemp-marijuana.

Leviticus 24:15 And say to the people of Israel, whoever curses his God shall bear his sin. 16 He who blasphemes the name of the Lord shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him; the sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death. 17 He who kills a man shall be put to death.

Isaiah 55: 8: For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says the Lord. 9: For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Beam is entitled to his opinions, but he blasphemes when he attributes evil to drug plants. These creations have many uses for mankind and people like Beam should not interfere with God's will because of their ignorance.

Beam's notion of Bible-based prohibitions becomes ridiculous when we remember that alcohol, the most destructive and dangerous drug of them all, is never banned even though many warnings about the dangers of alcohol are given. Indeed, Jesus' first miracle was making about 40 gallons of wine for a wedding party. ( see: John 2:3-11 ).


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Source: Central Kentucky News Journal (Campbellsville, KY)
Pubdate: Wed, 20 Sep 2006
Author: Ralph Givens
Copyright: 2006 Central Kentucky News Journal
Contact: cknj@cknj.com
Website: Central Kentucky News-Journal

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